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Comment Re:Maybe now we can finally get rid of COBOL? (Score 1) 27

There are 80-bit extended double types supported in the most modern Intel CPU's so what's your point?
Properly written software doesn't cause problems.
That is why COBOL is still around and most of the internet is supported by software written in even more exotic languages like Erlang.

Comment Rust will bring world peace (Score 4, Funny) 161

We should allow for programming languages to be awarded the Nobel Peace Price.
If Henry Kissinger can get a Nobel Peace Price, Rust should also be able to get one because everything is better with Rust.
I'd wish that someone would have pointer out that Visual Basic doesn't have pointers so we could have had Linux kernel support for it.

Comment Re: We just dumped Cursor (Score 1) 74

It's the next snake oil scam to capture some of that sweet VC money.
The biggest 'data center' that has been put into space has the performance of a recent iPhone model.
The biggest hurdle is getting rid of the heat.
The near vacuum of space doesn't absorb heat very well.
It needs to be converted to infrared radiation because nothing else works.
So as long as that hasn't been solved for kW sized space data centers, it is indeed ridiculous.

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